Backing up a windows disk <OT>

[Collins Richey]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 19:56:55 -0700
Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com> wrote:

> Collins Richey wrote:
> 
> >
> >I would like to carve out 10 gig of the drive using parted to put a linux
> >system on the box, but I daren't do this without proper backup.  It's one of
> >those accursed pre-installed WinXP beasts with no system install disks.
> >  
> >
> 
> Bootit NG will resize the ntfs partition. Sort of like Partition Magic. 
> I used it without data loss on my ntfs partition, reducing it to 10megs, 
> and adding several other 10 meg reiserfs partitions, and a vfat to 
> share. But as to backup, I can't help you. Ntfs is generally read only 
> from linux, yes?
> 

I'm thinking of something like Norton ghost that backup/restore at the partition
level. This would work, but the #@!% Norton folks didn't build in standard
support for CD writers.  You can only use a very few brands of CD writers. 

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Collins Richey - Denver Area
if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the 
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